Life at Hadi

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Claimed as a trendsetting work in the campus, the colour-pages of THE HADI are winning us accolades!

Photo courtesy

-'Sunset at goa' the scenic beauty of God's own work

-'Thunderbolt Hadi' the challenging storm photography

both by Dr Puneet Agarwal

-'Addicted Squirrels' by Danish Iqbal: everyone's favourite, both the photo and the guy!

-'Cat at HADI' by Dr Atif Rahman Raini

-'Canteen' by Dr Humail Khan

-'Cricket in the Prohibited Area' by Dr Azad Khan

-Rest of the photos by Dr Syed Faisal Hasan.

Annu bhai of Champion market did a terrific job, he knows what you want.

Tête-à-Tête with Shaheen Ahmad

Dr Shaheen Ahmed is presently a resident in the Department of Medicine of AIIMS, New Delhi. He cracked the AIIMS PG entrance examination with 10th rank.
The conversation started the Aligarian way, with a cup of tea at a snack-shop. Then we moved to his room discussing his protocol to PGMEE. Syed Faisal Hasan had a detailed conversation with Dr. Shaheen Ahmed on various aspects of medical life and PG entrance preparation. Excerpts from the conversation are being presented here.

 

FSL-Shaheen Bhai, JNMC is informally expanded as Jahan Na Miley Chaen. How was your journey through it?
SHN- In the first Prof. I Secured 64% and met a Suppli in Biochemistry. I was short of a couple of marks, that too, in practical.
In second Prof. I maintained 64%.
The miser mid-Prof. was passed through fetching 60%.
In final Prof, 62% and then came Internship. The Single year of internship is a very crucial period. You learn a lot about hospital administration during postings and prepare for PG-Entrance when you return from the postings.
Both play a pivotal role in shaping your future.
FSL- Your performance in various PG-Entrances.
SHN-     AMU PGE (2008) # 0 2
    PGI (Dec 2007) # 37
    AIPGMEE (2008) # 653
    AIIMS (May 2008) # 10
    PGI (June 2008) # 79
FSL- Some undergrads have an extreme view that “The ultimate undergrad aim is to crack the Pre-PG i.e. MCQs only, so gaining practical knowledge in the wards is a waste; as clinical skills can be learnt in PG also.” Do you think the “Ward Knowledge” helps in getting through the PGMEE?
SHN- You tell me Faisal, When did you learn monitoring B.P.?
FSL- Well sir, in the First year.
SHN- And you know it very well that it will never be taught to you in the future. Thats just an example
Knowledge in the Clinical books (S. Das, Hutchison’s etc.) and that learned in wards and evening teachings backs your knowledge up. You don’t realize, but they do aid.
Text books should be cleared in their respective profs and clinical books during ward postings.
FSL- So when do you think one should go for the “New-age MCQ books”?
SHN- Only during internship.
Undergraduates should lay more stress on text books and building and strengthening their concepts. Once you gain command on the text and having built fundamentals, its just the pattern of the PGMEE you should get the taste of, and so you go for MCQ books.
Four months during internship are enough to tick all the recommended MCQ books.


FSL- What should be the study material?
SHN- Standard Text books: like Ananthnaryan and not Jawetz, KDT and not Katzung, Robbins and not Harshmohan.
Notes of lectures: though they are concise and lucid, excellent for revision, it is a notion that questions in AMU-PGMEE are from lectures; as lectures are also prepared from books.
MCQ’s: as I said, during internship.

FSL- About Positive and Negative aspects of your personality.
SHN- Positive aspects
·    Thorough Study
·    Strict following of routine
Negative aspects
·    I studied thoroughly during Internship also
·    I could not revise amply due the same trait of mine


FSL- Thousands of aspirants sit for PGMEE.
Nearly everyone is well prepared.
Even those with knowledge to – the – hilt, fail to grab a fair rank.
What do you believe is the Mantra for a good rank.
SHN- The only thing required is to believe in yourself. Never betray yourself.
Take this thing out of your mind that “ I can not qualify”. Everybody  can qualify!
No one knows what destiny has for him. Even I used to think I wont qualify – Here I am!


FSL- Teachers you admire.
SHN- Lectures by: Dr. Manoj Shukla, Dr. Amitava.
Ward teachings by Haroon S. Khan of Medicine, Dr. Anjum Chughtai and Dr. Imran of Plastic Surgery (now in KSA).
There are a few other names I can recall at the moment.
FSL- How important do you find the role of group study?
SHN- Group discussion is important in revising and analyzing facts. What we gained out of our self study, my friend circle used to discuss during tea breaks!!

Welcome to Head-Neckpur

So creative the article is, we entertained it on the cover page.

This is a story about a small village called Headneckpur. It was 1st August 2008, the Sarpanch B.D. Chaurasia calls for the panchayat at the Bregma. Among many people, a typical bharatiya nari named Orbicularis Oculi was sitting with her sister Orbicularis Oris. They were there because the local gunda Trapezius used to tease Orbiculasis Oris on the way to her college at Inion. A fat neta Buccinator was also there with his supporters Frontalis, Mentalis, Platysma and others for the election campaign. Four brothers named Masseter, Lateral Pterygoid, Medial Pterygoid and Temporalis were having dispute over their father’s property of Mandibular nerve.
Temporalis, a strong dude with attractive persona and good nature loves the most beautiful girl of the village, Splenius capitis. She also loves him deeply.
Here comes the entry of second hero and he is none other than Sternodeidomastoid, the most charming guy of Headneckpur and son of a very rich and royal mastoid family. He had a huge crush on Splenius Capitis. So, after anterior and posterior triangle, there’s a love triangle in Headneckpur.
Sternocleidomastoid with his dad Mastoid process and mom Mastoid foramen visited Splenius’ home and asked her father for the rishta. Soon marriage date was also announced.
One day Sternocleidomastoid with his friends Great auricular and Suprascapular was going over the famous bridge – Zygomatic arch for hanging out. They just got shocked after seeing the couple Temporalis and Splenius Capitis at the Pterion (The lover point of Headneckpur).
One thing I forgot to tell you that Temporalis & Sternocleidomastoid were childhood friend, rather embryohood friends.
Now, the marriage night had arrived. Everything about the night was just great. The venue was the best banquet hall, the Lambda. There was no DJ but it was TMJ which rocked the party. There was no cold drink or shahi paneer or rosogulla, but there were arteries like middle meningeal, internal carotid, superior thyroid and others supplying the most delicious blood ever. Among the dholwalas were emissary veins. Many guests were present even from far villages like Upper Limb and Lower Limb. Temporalis was also invited. He was looking very upset and was not masticating this time. The auspicious moment had now arrived. The couple was on stage sternocleidomastoid had the mike and here he goes-
Sternocleidomastoid: On this great occasion I would like to ask my embryohood friend Temporalis to come on stage and give good wishes to his wife Splenius Capitis. (Everybody was just shocked by his statement)
Temporalis: Excuse me my friend, u are mistaken.
Sternocleidomastoid: I was mistaken before but now I know I am doing the right thing. Listen friend, friendship is on one side & love is on the other, you are my friend and she is your love. Then how come I came in between. She was not my true love, it was just …. Just attraction or u can say crush. It was your true love. Today I had to sacrifice either friendship or love and I sacrificed love (sorry, crush) because I know our true friendship is far better than this love.
Sternocleidomastoid (Continues): So by doing this I think our friendship will remain alive forever and so will your love. She was yours and will be yours forever. I was … like … just a side actor. Aur haan mujhe to Headneckpur ki koi bhi ladki mil jayegi.
Temporalis & Splenius Capitus got married and had four children Sternohyoid, Omohyoid, Sternothyroid and Thyrohyoid.
A very sweet and happy ending.

The Agonies and Ecstasies of Being a 2k8ian

I clearly remember my first day at college, sitting on a histology lab stool, I found myself scanning the nervous faces of my new classmates, or in the words of my teachers, “newborn babies” of JNMC. Little did I know then that these confused, out of place looking faces were providing a mask for the real, uncontrollably mischievous faces of 2K8ians.
As time progressed, we started to enjoy our never-ending journey through the raging waters of the 2K8 tsunami. Many high & low tides erupted, to leave a long lasting impression on the minds of all those people who have ever been in touch with our batch, whether they were our teachers or seniors.
2K8 is indeed a unique batch (in)completely cut off from other batches which is due to (Thanks Heavens!) a ban on ragging, not to forget the special treatment we got from security guards at the college. But, apart from that, the trademark of 2K8ians is ‘hooting’. Some of you may be aspiring to become heart specialist, some skin specialist but the 2k8ians want 2 be “hooting specialists”. From day 1, each and every 2K8ian started preparing for the ‘hooting’ PG entrance. We have all varieties: the funny ones, the naughty ones, the zappy and hilarious ones and the over the top ones too. Thanks to them, 2k8 batch has found a special place in the discipline diaries of all the departments (I don’t know if there’s one). It’s no surprise that people don’t want to be tagged ‘innocent’ here in 2K8.
As the days are passing by, we’re getting better & better anyways. But, hey, let me remind you, our batch is not as bad as it seems to be. In whatever quizzes or seminars in LT-I we were forcibly made to sit, and listen to something we don’t even understand, we ended up being tagged by the guests as the ‘most enthusiastic audience’. (Poor Chaps, little did they know that the enthusiasm was just because we got a free period, which is a rarity in JNMC). We also ended up as being the highest donors and maximum number of members in the Drug society. Amazing, no?
And one can’t forget to mention the drastic changes in the dressing sense of some, I repeat, some 2k8ian boys. From check shirts and black trousers, they have switched on to pink & yellow floral print shirts and oily gels slopped on their scalp, Heaven knows what’s got into them!
2k8 batch is also famous for the prestige of being the only batch which forced even the most lenient teachers to bring wooden sticks with them to unsuccessfully control the culprits. The strict ones portray themselves as reincarnations of Adolph Hilter.
I forgot to mention the ‘Soch’ tragedy... Oops! Committee. It had to be dissolved as the members had to bear the brunt after a mass bunk before Eid.
Alas, our teachers didn’t notice that it was a ‘MASS’ bunk, So, the Soch Iftar Party became a distant memory to Cherish in the near future.
We rounded off the year 2008, our year, by a trip to Agra, hooting ourselves out. But, the agra fever wearied off with notification of our LIFE’S first terminal exams. The world came to a standstill but the journey goes on….
We, the 2k8ians have lived it all in a very short span of time.
Love us or hate us, 2k8 Rocks!!

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's dream

“From the seed which we sow today there shall spring up a mighty tree, whose branches, like those of the banyan of the soil, will in turn strike firm roots into the Earth and themselves send forth new and vigorous saplings. This college shall expand into a University whose sons will go forth throughout the length and breadth of the land to preach the gospel of free enquiry, of large hearted toleration, and of pure morality.”

The Dream of Sir Syed

A reproduction of one of the issues of Tehzeebul Akhlaq.

“People persistently enquire as to how the boarders would be brought up at the proposed Madrasatul Ulum? Our earnest ambition is to make this Madrasatul Ulum a ‘Mohammedan University’, modelled on the lines of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge which we have recently visited. (Sir Syed along with Syed Mahmud visited the U.K. in 1869-70, Ed.)
Just as the students at Oxford and Cambridge have to visit the church and attend the prayers regularly, so also the residents of this institution would be duty bound to visit the mosques and offer their prayers. That is to say, the students will have to offer the congregational prayers five times every day. But the Shia students will have to attend the mosque only three times a day, as they can combine their Zuhr (afternoon prayers) with Asr (evening prayer), and Maghrib (prayer after sun-set) with the Isha (night prayer). All the boys studying at Oxford and Cambridge are provided with a uniform comprising a special coat and hat so as to make them look alike. This uniform has great advantages which is needless to mention here. The students of Madrasatul Ulum would be provided with black half sleeve gowns, instead of the back coat, and red Turkish caps. They would not be allowed to enter the institution, the library, the News Paper Room, or the museum without these gown and caps. Each of routine actions be it studying the books, playing the games, dining or sleeping, bathing or dressing, would be required to be done within the appointed hours. Every student shall have to complete that work at the time fix for it. If a student wished to prolong his studies till late after bedtime and go to sleep after the appointed time, he will not be allowed to do so. But he must go to sleep by bedtime. Suppose, if he does not get to sleep by the fixed time, he must be on the bed with his eyes shut.
Arrangement will be made for games and sports in college. Every student will be at liberty to take whatever games he likes. Riding on horseback, shooting and swimming would be taught to capacity, properly and suitably.
Students would be strictly forbidden against uttering bad or abusive words which often persist in their conversations. If by chance a student called the other a ‘liar’, it would be deemed as serious as using abusive words.
All the students would dine together in one hall. All types of dishes would be cooked and served from time to time and fruits of the seasons would also be given. Every week a special variety chosen by the majority of students would be garnished along with the daily food, provided it did not affect their health and is in keeping with the requirements of the season.
The students would be told to keep spick and span. No one would be permitted to put on laced, dyed or half colored clothes. Use of too thin or too tight a dress, which is likely to make bare the chest or abdomen, would be strictly forbidden.
No student would be allowed to wear long hair flowing down the ears. Plaiting the tresses, dressing of the hair, wearing of the rings and application of dentifrice and indigenous myrtle or sweet herb on teeth and fingers would not be permitted.
The offenders among students would not be inflicted corporal punishment nor would they be given punishment, which might result in gradual loss of their sense, and self respect. Telling a lie, on howsoever-trivial thing it may be, would be considered an execrable offence against society. Similarly nicknaming ‘liar’ would be regarded a heinous social crime, whether or not he might have told a lie.
God willing, the students would cooperate in starting a club called ‘Union Club’ just like that of Cambridge. In this club learned discussions on topics of general and academic interest will be held from time to time. The rules and regulations of speech would be exactly the same as those of the Cambridge Union Club.
The foundation day would always be celebrated as the anniversary of the institution. Festive gatherings, cultural activities and mirthful ceremonies would mark the commemoration of that day.
Up till now all this is wishful thinking or mere day-dreaming either, God forbid, it might end in proverbial awakening in the middle, which usually breaks the spell of a sweet dream, or, if God willed, our dream would materialize.”

Some Prominent AMU Alumni

1)    Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, freedom fighter also known as Frontier Gandhi.
2)    Zakir Hussain – President of India
3)    Mohd Hamid Ansari – Current Vice President, Chairman of NCM; Academician  Former diplomat and former V.C. of Aligarh Muslim University
4)    Ishwari Prasad, Historian
5)    Sheik Abdullah, Prime Minister of Kashmir and later served  as Chief Minister of  Kashmir
6)    Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza, Ex-writer, Mahabharat Teleserial fame
7)    Sahib Singh Verma, Former Chief Minister of Delhi
8)    Mohd. Yunus, a former diplomat and Ambassador to Spain, Turkey and London.
9)    Major Dhyan Chand, the greatest Hockey player and Olympist India has ever produced 
10)    K. Asif, renowned Director of Mughal-e-Azam fame
11)    Lala Amarnath – Former Indian Cricket team Captain
12)    Nasiruddin Shah – film actor
13)    Ghulam Mustafa Khan – Researcher, Critic, Linguist, Author & Scholar of Urdu literature and Linguistics, Educationist.
14)    Shibli Nomani, Islamic Scholar
15)    Liaquat Ali Khan, First Prime Minister of Pakistan
16)    Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Foremost Pakistani Urdu Humorist.
17)    Mukhtar Masood, Urdu writer, Pakistani bureaucrat.
18)    Shakeel Badayuni, an accomplished Urdu poet and lyricist.
19)    Shan-ul Haq Haqqee, Urdu writer, researcher, linguist, lexicographer.
20)    Syed Waqar Ahmed Rizvi, Researcher, Critic Linguist, Author, Scholar of Urdu literature and Linguistics.
21)    Mir Mahfooz Ali, Judge, Revenue Secretary (Khairpur State), Writer, Muslim League founding signatory
22)    Chaudhary Abdul Hameed Khan, Rehabilitation Commissioner of East and West Pakistan.
23)    Amin Kamil, one of greatest poets in Kashmiri language.
24)    Javed Akhtar
25)    Gulgee, World renowned Pakistani artist famous for his paintings and Islamic calligraphy.
26)    Ali Ashraf Fatmi, Minister of State HRD, Govt. of India
27)    Mushtaq Ali, Former Indian Cricket Team Captain.
28)    Prof. P.S. Gill – Renowned Physicist.
29)    Prof. Mohammad Habib, Noted Historian and freedom fighter.
30)    Dr. Irfan Habib, World famous Historian.
31)    Zafar Iqbal – Former Indian Hockey Team Captain.
32)    Israrul Haq Majaz, Urdu poet and writer of AMU Tarana
33)    Nawab Mirza Aqil Hussain, Persian Scholar & Incharge of Egyptian Embassy.
34)    Prof. Abdul Rahman Hanafi, Mathematician and Activist 
35)    Prof. A. Ahmad Suroor, famous Urdu Critic, writer and recipient of Padma Bhushan
36)    Prof. Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui, famous Urdu Critic & Writer
37)    Kaifi Azmi, famous Urdu Poet.
38)    Bilquis Azmat Gauhar, Professor, Metereologist, writer
39)    Mushirul Hasan, Professor, Ex-V.C. of Jamia Millia Islamia
40)    Syed Zahoor Qasim, Father of Oceanography and Polar research in India.
41)    Prof. Moonis Raza, Noted Academician, freedom fighter and former V.C. of Delhi University
42)    Anubhav Sinha, famous director of Hindi Movies (Tum Bin, Dus, Cash etc.)
43)    Dalip Tahil, famous Hindi movies artist.
44)    Sahib Singh Verma, former Chief Minister of Delhi State and former Union Cabinet Minister.
45)    Prof. Abrar Mustafa Khan, Emeritus Professor and father of Nematology in India.
46)    Zarina Hashmi, Highly ranked modern artist.
47)    Prof. Nazir Ahmad, Prof. Emeritus, Persian Scholar, Critic, Linguist, Lexicographer and Editor
48)    Justice Niamatullah, Former Justive of High Court, Allahbad
49)    Zubeda (Renuka Devi), leading lady of first talkie movie of India, Alam Ara
50)    Majrooh Sultanpuri, leading Lyricist.

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